er.ajax

Class AjaxModalDialog

java.lang.Object

com.webobjects.appserver.WOElement

com.webobjects.appserver.WOComponent

er.ajax.AjaxComponent

er.ajax.AjaxModalDialog

All Implemented Interfaces:

WOActionResults, NSKeyValueCoding, NSKeyValueCoding.ErrorHandling, NSKeyValueCodingAdditions, NSValidation, IAjaxElement, Serializable, Cloneable

public class AjaxModalDialog
extends AjaxComponent

AjaxModalDialog is a modal dialog window based on ModalBox (see below for link). It differs from AjaxModalContainer in that it handles submitting forms and updating the container contents. It also looks more like an OS X modal dialog if you consider that to be a benefit.

The AjaxModalDialog is not rendered where it is located in your page. Because of this, it should not be physically nested in a form if it uses form input (needs a form), as it will be rendered outside of the form. If you want to have such a dialog, place the AjaxModalDialog outside of the form and use an AjaxModalDialogOpener in the form.

Don't use AjaxModalDialogs inside of a repetition. That will create a set of identical dialogs and will likely cause then to display the wrong data. Instead, declare the dialogs outside of the repetition. Then INSIDE the repetition use an AjaxModalDialogOpener for the link to open the dialog. The action method of the AjaxModalDialogOpener should cache the current item from the repetition in an instance variable. The AjaxModalDialog should then look at that instance variable to determine what data it should show.

The links shown to open the dialog can come from two sources:

• the label binding
• an in-line ERXWOTemplate named "link". This allows for images etc to be used to open the dialog

The contents for the modal dialog can come from four sources:

• in-line, between the open in close tags
• externally from an in-line WOComponent
• externally from an action method (see action binding)
• externally from an named WOcomponent (see pageName binding)

To cause the dialog to be closed in an Ajax action method, use this: AjaxModalDialog.close(context());

To cause the contents of the dialog to be updated in an Ajax action method, use this: AjaxModalDialog.update(context());

The modal dialog is opened by calling a JavaScript function. While this is normally done from an onclick handler, you can call it directly. The function name is openAMD_<ID>(): openAMD_MyDialogId();

See Also:

AjaxModalDialogOpener, Modalbox Page, Google Group, Serialized Form

Author:

chill TODO handle href to static content TODO make dialog draggable TODO lock dialog open unless closed by content TODO add transitioning to other contents without closing dialog

Bindings

Name	Description
action	action method returning the contents of the dialog box
pageName	name of WOComponent for the contents of the dialog box
label	the text for the link that opens the dialog box
title	Title to be displayed in the ModalBox window header, also used as title attribute of link opening dialog
linkTitle	Title to be used as title attribute of link opening dialog, title is used if this is not present
width	integer Width in pixels, use -1 for auto-width
height	integer Height in pixels, use -1 for auto-height. When set Modalbox will operate in 'fixed-height' mode.
centerVertically	optional, if true the dialog is centered vertically on the page instead of appearing at the top
open	if true, the container is rendered already opened, the default is false
showOpener	if false, no HTML is generated for the link, button etc. to open this dialog, it can only be opened from custom JavaScript (see below). The default is true
enabled	if false, nothing is rendered for this component. This can be used instead of wrapping this in a WOConditional. The default is true.
ignoreNesting	optional, if true and this dialog is nested inside another, no warning will be output
onOpen	server side method that runs before the dialog is opened, the return value is discarded
onClose	server side method that runs before the dialog is closed, the return value is discarded. This will be executed if the page is reloaded, but not if the user navigates elsewhere.
closeUpdateContainerID	the update container to refresh when onClose is called
onCloseBeforeUpdate	if the given function returns true, the update container named in closeUpdateContainerID is updated. This is to allow conditional updating, e.g. not updating when the dialog is simply dismissed.
clickOnReturnId	optional, ID of clickable HTML element to click when the Return key is pressed. This is ignored if a clickable element has the focus
clickOnEscId	optional, ID of clickable HTML element to click when the Esc key is pressed. This is ignored if a clickable element has the focus but overrides the locked setting
id	HTML id for the link activating the modal dialog
class	CSS class for the link activating the modal dialog
style	CSS style for the link activating the modal dialog
overlayClose	true | false Close modal box by clicking on overlay. Default is true.
locked	if true, suppresses the close window link, prevents Esc key and overlay from closing dialog. Default is false, true implies overlayClose false. If clickOnEscId is bound, this allows Esc to do something regardless of the locked binding
method	get | post. Method of passing variables to a server. Default is 'get'.
params	{} Collection of parameters to pass on AJAX request. Should be URL-encoded. See PassingFormValues for details.
loadingString	string The message to show during loading. Default is "Please wait. Loading...".
closeString	Defines title attribute for close window link. Default is "Close window".
closeValue	Defines the string for close link in the header. Default is '×'
overlayOpacity	Overlay opacity. Must be between 0-1. Default is .65.
overlayDuration	Overlay fade in/out duration in seconds.
slideDownDuration	Modalbox appear slide down effect in seconds, default is value of property er.ajax.modaldialog.slideDownDuration=0.5
slideUpDuration	Modalbox hiding slide up effect in seconds, default is value of property er.ajax.modaldialog.slideUpDuration=0.5
resizeDuration	Modalbox resize duration in seconds, default is value of property er.ajax.modaldialog.resizeDuration=0.25
movable	Modalbox is movable, default is value of property er.ajax.modaldialog.movable=false
inactiveFade	true | false, Toggles Modalbox window fade on inactive state.
transitions	true | false, Toggles transition effects. Transitions are enabled by default.
autoFocusing	true | false, Toggles auto-focusing for form elements. Disable it for long text pages. Add the class MB_notFocusable to any inputs you want excluded from focusing.
beforeLoad	client side method, fires right before loading contents into the ModalBox. If the callback function returns false, content loading will skipped. This can be used for redirecting user to another MB-page for authorization purposes for example.
afterLoad	client side method, fires after loading content into the ModalBox (i.e. after showing or updating existing window).
beforeHide	client side method, fires right before removing elements from the DOM. Might be useful to get form values before hiding modalbox.
afterHide	client side method, fires after hiding ModalBox from the screen.
afterResize	client side method, fires after calling resize method.
onShow	client side method, fires on first appearing of ModalBox before the contents are being loaded.
onUpdate	client side method, fires on updating the content of ModalBox (on call of Modalbox.show method from active ModalBox instance).

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.webobjects.appserver.WOComponent

WOComponent._EventLoggingEnabler, WOComponent.Event

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCodingAdditions

NSKeyValueCodingAdditions.DefaultImplementation, NSKeyValueCodingAdditions.Utility

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding

NSKeyValueCoding._BooleanFieldBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._BooleanMethodBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._FieldBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._ForwardingBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._KeyBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._KeyBindingCreation, NSKeyValueCoding._MethodBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._NumberFieldBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._NumberMethodBinding, NSKeyValueCoding._ReflectionKeyBindingCreation, NSKeyValueCoding.ErrorHandling, NSKeyValueCoding.MapImplementation, NSKeyValueCoding.Null<T>, NSKeyValueCoding.UnknownKeyException, NSKeyValueCoding.ValueAccessor

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSValidation

NSValidation._MethodBinding, NSValidation._ValidationBinding, NSValidation.DefaultImplementation, NSValidation.Utility, NSValidation.ValidationException

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	Close JavaScript to execute on the client to close the modal dialog
static String	Close_ElementID_Suffix Element ID suffix indicating an C Dialog action.
static String	Open_ElementID_Suffix Element ID suffix indicating an Open Dialog action.

Fields inherited from class com.webobjects.appserver.WOComponent

_Extension, _IsEventLoggingEnabled, _keyAssociations

Fields inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding.ErrorHandling

_CLASS

Fields inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCodingAdditions

_CLASS, _KeyPathSeparatorChar, KeyPathSeparator

Fields inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSKeyValueCoding

NullValue

Fields inherited from interface com.webobjects.foundation.NSValidation

_CLASS

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AjaxModalDialog(WOContext context)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected String	_containerID(WOContext context) Returns the ID that represents this container for the purposes of Ajax updates.
static AjaxModalDialog	_currentDialog(WOContext context)
protected void	addRequiredWebResources(WOResponse response) Override this method to append the needed scripts for this component.
protected void	appendOpenModalDialogFunction(WOResponse response, WOContext context) Appends function body to open the modal dialog window.
void	appendToResponse(WOResponse response, WOContext context) This has two modes.
void	awake() Start of R-R loop.
static void	close(WOContext context) Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that closes the modal dialog.
void	closeDialog() If the dialog is open, calls the method bound to onClose (if any), and marks the dialog state as closed.
protected String	closeDialogURL(WOContext context)
protected NSMutableDictionary<String,String>	createModalBoxOptions()
protected String	cssFileFrameworkName()
protected String	cssFileName()
static AjaxModalDialog	currentDialog(WOContext context)
WOActionResults	handleRequest(WORequest request, WOContext context) Handles the open and close dialog actions.
String	id()
WOActionResults	invokeAction(WORequest request, WOContext context) Only handle this phase if the modal box is open or it is our action (opening the box).
static boolean	isInDialog(WOContext context)
boolean	isOpen()
static void	open(WOContext context, String id) Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that opens the modal dialog.
static void	open(WOContext context, String id, String title) Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that opens the modal dialog.
void	openDialog() Calls the method bound to onOpen (if any), and marks the dialog state as open.
static String	openDialogFunctionName(String id) Returns the JavaScript function name for the function to open the AjaxModalDialog with the specified ID.
protected String	openDialogURL(WOContext context)
protected void	popActionResultsFromContext(WOContext context) Sets the current component in context to the one there before pushActionResultsIntoContext was called.
protected void	popDialog() Remove this dialog instance from the context, replacing the previous one if any.
protected void	pushActionResultsIntoContext(WOContext context) Make _actionResults (result of the action binding) the current component in context for WO processing.
protected void	pushDialog() Stash this dialog instance in the context so we can access it from the static methods.
void	setCurrentDialogInPageIfNecessary(WOActionResults results, WORequest request, WOContext context)
void	setOpen(boolean open)
protected boolean	shouldHandleRequest(WORequest request, WOContext context) Removes Open_ElementID_Suffix or Close_ElementID_Suffix before evaluating senderID.
void	sleep() End of R-R loop.
boolean	synchronizesVariablesWithBindings()
void	takeValuesFromRequest(WORequest request, WOContext context) Only handle this phase if the modal box is open.
String	templateName() Returns the template name for the ERXWOComponentContent: null to show the dialog (default) contents and "link" to show the link contents
static void	update(WOContext context, String title) Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that updates the contents of the modal dialog.
static void	update(WOContext context, WOComponent newContent, String title) Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that updates the contents of the modal dialog.

Methods inherited from class er.ajax.AjaxComponent

addScriptResourceInHead, addScriptResourceInHead, addStylesheetResourceInHead, addStylesheetResourceInHead, appendTagAttributeToResponse, booleanValueForBinding, safeElementID, valueForBinding, valueForBinding, valueForBinding

Methods inherited from class com.webobjects.appserver.WOComponent

__valueForBinding, _associationWithName, _awakeInContext, _childTemplate, _cleanUpStatelessComponent, _componentDefinition, _componentUnroll, _isPage, _setContext, _setIsPage, _setParent, _setSubcomponent, _sleepInContext, _subcomponentForElementWithID, _templateNameForClass, _unroll, application, baseURL, bindingKeys, canAccessFieldsDirectly, canGetValueForBinding, canSetValueForBinding, clone, context, debugString, descriptionForResponse, ensureAwakeInContext, frameworkName, generateResponse, handleQueryWithUnboundKey, handleTakeValueForUnboundKey, hasBinding, hasSession, isCachingEnabled, isEventLoggingEnabled, isStateless, logString, name, pageWithName, parent, path, pathURL, performParentAction, pullValuesFromParent, pushValuesToParent, reset, session, set_componentUnroll, set_unroll, setCachingEnabled, setValueForBinding, setVariableValueForName, takeValueForKey, takeValueForKeyPath, template, templateWithHTMLString, templateWithHTMLString, templateWithHTMLString, templateWithName, toString, unableToSetNullForKey, validateTakeValueForKeyPath, validateValueForKey, validationFailedWithException, valueForBinding, valueForBooleanBinding, valueForIntegerBinding, valueForKey, valueForKeyPath, valueForNSArrayBindings, valueForNSDictionaryBindings, valueForNumberBinding, valueForStringBinding, variableValueForName, variableWithName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

Close

public static final String Close

JavaScript to execute on the client to close the modal dialog

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Open_ElementID_Suffix

public static final String Open_ElementID_Suffix

Element ID suffix indicating an Open Dialog action.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Close_ElementID_Suffix

public static final String Close_ElementID_Suffix

Element ID suffix indicating an C Dialog action.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

AjaxModalDialog

public AjaxModalDialog(WOContext context)

Method Detail

synchronizesVariablesWithBindings

public boolean synchronizesVariablesWithBindings()

Overrides:

synchronizesVariablesWithBindings in class WOComponent

isOpen

public boolean isOpen()

setOpen

public void setOpen(boolean open)

open

public static void open(WOContext context,
                        String id)

Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that opens the modal dialog. The title of the dialog will be what it was when rendered.

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

id - the HTML ID of the AjaxModalDialog to open

open

public static void open(WOContext context,
                        String id,
                        String title)

Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that opens the modal dialog. The title of the dialog will be the passed title. This is useful if the script to open this dialog was rendered without the title or with an incorrect title.

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

id - the HTML ID of the AjaxModalDialog to open

title - the title for the AjaxModalDialog

openDialogFunctionName

public static String openDialogFunctionName(String id)

Returns the JavaScript function name for the function to open the AjaxModalDialog with the specified ID.

Parameters:

id - the HTML ID of the AjaxModalDialog to open

Returns:

JavaScript function name for the function to open the AjaxModalDialog

close

public static void close(WOContext context)

Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that closes the modal dialog.

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

update

public static void update(WOContext context,
                          String title)

Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that updates the contents of the modal dialog.

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

title - optional new title for the updated dialog

update

public static void update(WOContext context,
                          WOComponent newContent,
                          String title)

Call this method to have a JavaScript response returned that updates the contents of the modal dialog.

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

newContent - the new content for the updated dialog

title - optional new title for the updated dialog

setCurrentDialogInPageIfNecessary

public void setCurrentDialogInPageIfNecessary(WOActionResults results,
                                              WORequest request,
                                              WOContext context)

_currentDialog

public static AjaxModalDialog _currentDialog(WOContext context)

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

Returns:

the AjaxModalDialog currently being processed

Throws:

RuntimeException - if no AjaxModalDialog is currently being processed

currentDialog

public static AjaxModalDialog currentDialog(WOContext context)

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

Returns:

the AjaxModalDialog currently being processed

Throws:

RuntimeException - if no AjaxModalDialog is currently being processed

isInDialog

public static boolean isInDialog(WOContext context)

Parameters:

context - the current WOContext

Returns:

true if an AjaxModalDialog currently being processed

awake

public void awake()

Start of R-R loop. awakes the components from action if action is bound.

Overrides:

awake in class WOComponent

See Also:

WOComponent.awake()

takeValuesFromRequest

public void takeValuesFromRequest(WORequest request,
                                  WOContext context)

Only handle this phase if the modal box is open. Also includes result returned by action binding if bound.

Overrides:

takeValuesFromRequest in class WOComponent

See Also:

WOComponent.takeValuesFromRequest(com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest, com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext)

invokeAction

public WOActionResults invokeAction(WORequest request,
                                    WOContext context)

Only handle this phase if the modal box is open or it is our action (opening the box). Overridden to include result returned by action binding if bound.

Overrides:

invokeAction in class AjaxComponent

Parameters:

request - the request

context - context of the transaction

Returns:

a WOActionResults containing the result of the request

See Also:

close(WOContext), update(WOContext, String), WOComponent.takeValuesFromRequest(com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest, com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext)

shouldHandleRequest

protected boolean shouldHandleRequest(WORequest request,
                                      WOContext context)

Removes Open_ElementID_Suffix or Close_ElementID_Suffix before evaluating senderID.

Overrides:

shouldHandleRequest in class AjaxComponent

Returns:

true if this request is for this component

See Also:

AjaxComponent.shouldHandleRequest(com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest, com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext)

handleRequest

public WOActionResults handleRequest(WORequest request,
                                     WOContext context)

Handles the open and close dialog actions.

Specified by:

handleRequest in interface IAjaxElement

Specified by:

handleRequest in class AjaxComponent

Parameters:

request - the request

context - the context

Returns:

null or dialog contents

See Also:

AjaxComponent.handleRequest(com.webobjects.appserver.WORequest, com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext)

appendToResponse

public void appendToResponse(WOResponse response,
                             WOContext context)

This has two modes. One is to generate the link that opens the dialog. The other is to return the contents of the dialog (the result returned by action binding is handled in handleRequest, not here).

Overrides:

appendToResponse in class AjaxComponent

Parameters:

response - the HTTP response that an application returns to a Web server to complete a cycle of the request-response loop

context - context of a transaction

See Also:

AjaxComponent.appendToResponse(com.webobjects.appserver.WOResponse, com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext)

appendOpenModalDialogFunction

protected void appendOpenModalDialogFunction(WOResponse response,
                                             WOContext context)

Appends function body to open the modal dialog window.

Parameters:

response - WOResponse to append to

context - WOContext of response

See Also:

openDialogFunctionName(String)

sleep

public void sleep()

End of R-R loop. Puts the components from action to sleep if action is bound.

Overrides:

sleep in class WOComponent

See Also:

WOComponent.sleep()

openDialog

public void openDialog()

Calls the method bound to onOpen (if any), and marks the dialog state as open.

closeDialog

public void closeDialog()

If the dialog is open, calls the method bound to onClose (if any), and marks the dialog state as closed. This method can get called if the page gets reloaded so be careful modifying the response if ! AjaxRequestHandler.AjaxRequestHandlerKey.equals(context().request().requestHandlerKey())

_containerID

protected String _containerID(WOContext context)

Description copied from class: AjaxComponent

Returns the ID that represents this container for the purposes of Ajax updates. In common cases, this corresponds to your updateContainerID.

Overrides:

_containerID in class AjaxComponent

Parameters:

context - the current context

Returns:

id()

See Also:

AjaxComponent._containerID(com.webobjects.appserver.WOContext)

id

public String id()

Returns:

the value bound to id or an manufactured string if id is not bound

templateName

public String templateName()

Returns the template name for the ERXWOComponentContent: null to show the dialog (default) contents and "link" to show the link contents

Returns:

null or "link"

createModalBoxOptions

protected NSMutableDictionary<String,String> createModalBoxOptions()

Returns:

binding values converted into Ajax options for ModalBox

addRequiredWebResources

protected void addRequiredWebResources(WOResponse response)

Description copied from class: AjaxComponent

Override this method to append the needed scripts for this component.

Specified by:

addRequiredWebResources in class AjaxComponent

Parameters:

response - the response to write to

See Also:

AjaxComponent.addRequiredWebResources(com.webobjects.appserver.WOResponse)

cssFileName

protected String cssFileName()

Returns:

value for modalboxCSS binding, or default of "modalbox.css"

cssFileFrameworkName

protected String cssFileFrameworkName()

Returns:

value for modalboxCSSFramework binding, or default of "Ajax"

pushDialog

protected void pushDialog()

Stash this dialog instance in the context so we can access it from the static methods. If there is one AMD nested in another (a rather dubious thing to do that we warn about but it may have its uses), we need to remember the outer one while processing this inner one

See Also:

popDialog()

popDialog

protected void popDialog()

Remove this dialog instance from the context, replacing the previous one if any.

See Also:

pushDialog()

pushActionResultsIntoContext

protected void pushActionResultsIntoContext(WOContext context)

Make _actionResults (result of the action binding) the current component in context for WO processing. Remembers the current component so that it can be restored.

Parameters:

context - WOContext to push _actionResults into

See Also:

popActionResultsFromContext(WOContext)

popActionResultsFromContext

protected void popActionResultsFromContext(WOContext context)

Sets the current component in context to the one there before pushActionResultsIntoContext was called.

Parameters:

context - WOContext to restore previous component in

See Also:

pushActionResultsIntoContext(WOContext)

openDialogURL

protected String openDialogURL(WOContext context)

Parameters:

context - WOContext to create URL in

Returns:

URL to invoke when the dialog is opened

closeDialogURL

protected String closeDialogURL(WOContext context)

Parameters:

context - WOContext to create URL in

Returns:

URL to invoke when the dialog is closed